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• North Carolina updates gender change process for licenses - Vancouver Sun

  30-01-2019 23:34
  North Carolina updates gender change process for licenses  Vancouver SunRALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles is issuing a new application form making it easier for some transgender people to list their ...
  
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• We're recruiting for temporary full-time Labourer 1 employees. Click here to apply. ow.ly/OecT30nwdvI #NorthVan

  30-01-2019 23:17 via twitter.com
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• Horse belonging to missing Merritt cowboy arrived at ranch unscathed

  30-01-2019 23:12 via vancouversun.com
  The horse owned and last ridden by missing cowboy Ben Tyner arrived at the Nicola Ranch unscathed with nothing to indicate how it had lost its rider, according to the ranch office manager.
  Tammy Straya told Postmedia News that Tyner had brought the horse with him from Wyoming when he took the job as Nicola Ranch’s ranch manager three months ago.
  “The horse is good. Nothing attacked the horse; something might have scared it, but there’s no blood, no spur marks, no scratches. It&
  
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• Gastrointestinal outbreak hits Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops

  30-01-2019 22:54 via vancouversun.com
  Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops has stopped admitting patients at three of its medical units due to a gastrointestinal illness outbreak that has left more than two dozen sick.
  Interior Health says 16 patients and 11 staff members at the hospital were affected as of Tuesday.
  “In accordance with an outbreak response management plan, the hospital is not admitting patients to 4North, 5South and 7North — the medical units experiencing the outbreak. Patients on those wards who
  
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• Vandals damage 50 trees in Vancouver's Langara Golf Course

  30-01-2019 22:52 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver park board says up to 50 trees vandalized at Langara Golf Course are unlikely to recover.
  The juvenile trees — a variety of species including sequoia, west coast cedar, Douglas fir, Fraser fir and alder — had their tops sawed off by vandals over the past four weeks.
  Vancouver police are investigating.
  The city believes the vandalism occurred at night as the municipal golf course is open seven days a week from dawn to dusk.
  The park board says the trees pr
  
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• ART SEEN: You don't see this very often – an art talk on a moving bus

  30-01-2019 22:01 via vancouversun.com
  An unusual art talk on a bus takes place Sunday in Vancouver.
  Artist Diyan Achjadi will be talking about the graphic wrap she’s made called NonSerie (In Commute) on board one of the TransLink buses wrapped in her distinctive West Javanese design.
  Achjadi will be in conversation with Kimberly Phillips, curator of How far do you travel? It’s a project of the Contemporary Art Gallery, which has chosen Achjadi and four other artists to wrap 30 articulated buses in their designs.
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• Ex-Vancouver cop Jim Fisher loses jail-term appeal for kissing sex-crime victims

  30-01-2019 21:50 via vancouversun.com
  Former Vancouver police Det. Jim Fisher has lost his appeal of a 20-month jail term for sex-related offences involving two vulnerable crime victims.
  In a ruling released Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the B.C. Court of Appeal upheld the sentence imposed on the highly decorated 61-year-old former cop.
  In August, provincial court Judge Robert Hamilton imposed sentence on Fisher, who had admitted that he kissed one of the female victims three times, identified only as A due to a publication ban,
  
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• Eek! Final days to apply for a Community Grant. Deadline for applications is January 31. cnv.org/CommunityGrants… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-01-2019 21:35 via twitter.com
  Eek! Final days to apply for a Community Grant. Deadline for applications is January 31. cnv.org/CommunityGrants… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Guilty pleas in hunting case of three B.C. Indigenous men a concern: chief

  30-01-2019 20:35 via vancouversun.com
  PENTICTON — A court ruling in a trespassing case raises larger issues of Indigenous land rights and title, a southern British Columbia First Nation said.
  A statement issued by the Penticton Indian Band said it supports three Indigenous men each fined $500 after they pleaded guilty to trespassing for shooting a deer on property marked as private.
  Cole Kruger, Felix Thomas Kruger and Fred Kruger were initially charged with trespassing, unlawful possession of dead wildlife and discharging a f
  
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• Vancouver author returns to Kincaid Strange for second zombie crime novel

  30-01-2019 20:17 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver scientist and fantasy writer Kristi Charish has brought back to life Kincaid Strange in the new book Lipstick Voodoo. In this second novel the voodoo loving Kincaid has a lot on her plate including some murders and a roommate who comes home tied to a dead body. What’s a girl to do? Pick up the book and find out.
  Cherish, who has a Ph.D in zoology from UBC, recently took some time to answer a few questions about her fiery protagonist and what it means to be a “panster.&rdquo
  
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• B.C. moves to stem high rate of overdose deaths by recent inmates

  30-01-2019 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia is launching a project aimed at reducing the number of overdose deaths by inmates recently released from correctional facilities.
  A coroner’s death review panel last year found about two-thirds B.C. residents who died of an illegal drug overdose over a 19-month period had recent contact with the criminal justice system.
  The panel said that between January 2016 and the end of July 2017, 333 people died within their first month of release from a correctional facility.
  The He
  
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• B.C. Ferries sailing delayed due to fuel spill at Horseshoe Bay

  30-01-2019 20:06 via vancouversun.com
  A semi-truck loading onto a B.C. Ferries ship at Horseshoe Bay has spilled diesel.
  The truck was loading onto the Queen of Coquitlam for the 9:45 a.m. sailing to Langdale when the spill occurred. It’s unclear how much fuel was spilled or if the fuel has reached the water.
  #BCFHeadsUp #HorseshoeBay #Langdale the #QueenofCoquitlam is holding in dock due to a semi truck spilling fuel during loading. The 9:45am sailing exiting Horseshoe Bay – Langdale is delayed. Further updates & se
  
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• Thirteen-year-old Camryn Macdonald lives the hard-knock life as Annie

  30-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Annie
  When: Feb. 1-16.
  Where: Michael J. Fox Theatre.
  Tickets: $29-$42 at alignentertainment.ca/tickets or vtixonline.com.
  Align Entertainment’s production of Annie features a 12-piece orchestra, an 18-strong cast (including a dozen young actors as orphans), and two dogs (taking turns as Annie’s mutt, Sandy). The title character of the musical, first performed on Broadway in 1977, is played by 13-year-old Camryn Macdonald. We talked to the young Tsawwassen-based actor about the role
  
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• Classical music: Behzod Abduraimov returns

  30-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Pianist Behzod Abduraimov
  When: Sunday Feb. 10, 3:00 p.m.
  Where: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
  Tickets and info: vanrecital.comFrom the first notes of his Vancouver debut for the Vancouver Recital Society, pianist Behzod Abduraimov mesmerized piano fanciers with his outsized technique and his outsized musical personality. He makes an unprecedented fourth visit to Vancouver on Sunday, Feb. 10 at the Chan Centre, where he essays a demanding Love And Death program of Wagner, Liszt, and Prokof
  
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• Chopard president talks history, design and keeping it all in the family

  30-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  For Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, jewelry and watches aren’t just about business. They are about family.
  The Chopard president, who runs the company alongside his sister Caroline, has been working in the industry for as long as he can remember. In fact, he fondly recalls his early years exploring the inner workings of the production workshops in Geneva.
  “I sometimes spent afternoons at the factory, playing with watch parts,” he says. “I was kind of born into the sub
  
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• Aboriginal Aussie dance piece illuminates life with HIV

  30-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Blood on the Dance Floor
  When: Feb. 6-9 at 8 p.m.
  Where: SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.
  Tickets: From $35 at dancehouse.ca or 604-801-6225.
  Written and performed by Jacob Boehme, Blood on the Dance Floor is a mix of dance, theatre and storytelling. Its message: you can be HIV-positive and live a normal life.
  “We’re lucky now, particularly in Western countries,” Boehme said. “For me, it’s two pills in the morning. What’s complicated is when people have
  
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• Do you know someone who is working to help make the DNV one of the best places to live, work, and play? Help us hon… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-01-2019 19:44 via twitter.com
  Do you know someone who is working to help make the DNV one of the best places to live, work, and play? Help us hon… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• New immigrants spending 54% more on Metro Vancouver houses than locals: study

  30-01-2019 19:43
  
  Average assessed value of immigrant-owned homes higher than those owned by Canadian-born residents, finds Statistics Canada
  
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• Regulatory overkill cited as housing outlook goes negative

  30-01-2019 18:46
  
  “Combined effect of tighter mortgage guidelines and higher interest rates has been larger than previously estimated,” says Bank of Canada
  
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• Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist #BellLetsTalk #MentalHealth #HealthyCommunities… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-01-2019 17:45 via twitter.com
  Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist #BellLetsTalk #MentalHealth #HealthyCommunities… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Struggling seal pup receiving treatment after rescue off Vancouver Island - North Shore News

  30-01-2019 17:14
  Struggling seal pup receiving treatment after rescue off Vancouver Island  North Shore NewsVANCOUVER — A dehydrated, severely underweight northern fur seal pup is being treated at a rescue centre in Vancouver after being scooped from the waters ...
  
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• Daily Poll: Who do you think will win in the Nanaimo byelection?

  30-01-2019 17:12 via vancouversun.com
  It’s decision day in the Nanaimo provincial byelection that could trigger an early election if the Liberal party wins.
  Read Scott Brown’s story on advance voting here.
  Read Matt Robinson’s story on how the Plecas report may affect outcome here.
  Read Vaughn Palmer’s take on the byelection here.
  What do you think? Are you predicting the NDP stronghold will continue? Or do you think the Liberals will win? Perhaps you think the Greens or another candidate will win. Take our p
  
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• Halifax councillors join Vancouver in declaring climate emergency - North Shore News

  30-01-2019 17:05
  Halifax councillors join Vancouver in declaring climate emergency  North Shore NewsHalifax has become the second Canadian city to declare a climate emergency.Council voted Tuesday to pass a mostly symbolic acknowledgment that climate ...
  
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• Safe travel: 5 tips to help you back up your passport, travel documents

  30-01-2019 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  It happens: You can get robbed or have some kind of mishap that destroys your documents, passport or phone. The phone is tough — it will likely contain tons of photos, and you may have your travel itineraries and booking confirmations on it as well. Smart travellers know they should back up their documents and keep copies of a passport and identification in the event of a mishap. Here are five tips to streamline your travel.
  1. Documents
  If you’ve ever lost your passport or had
  
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• Nanaimo votes in crucial byelection today

  30-01-2019 16:35 via vancouversun.com
  Nanaimo heads to the polls today in a byelection that could trigger an earlier provincial election depending on the results.
  Running are the NDP’s Sheila Malcolmson, Liberal Tony Harris, and Green party candidate Michele Ney. Justin Greenwood of the B.C. Conservative party, Robin Mark Richardson of the Vancouver Island Party and Bill Walker, a Libertarian, are also vying for the seat.
  The byelection was called to fill the seat left vacant by NDP MLA Leonard Krog, who st
  
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• The symbol of the pig 'has always been blessed with good fortune'

  30-01-2019 14:01 via vancouversun.com
  Think back for a moment to 1959, a Year of the Pig in the Chinese Zodiac calendar.
  Canada was basking in the glow of post-Second World War prosperity. The average annual salary of $5,000 could buy you a new house for $12,500 and a new Chevy for $2,200, while just $1 would get you a night at the movies to watch Marilyn Monroe.
  Now, 60 years later, with the return of the Year of the Pig, you could hunt for a long time in Vancouver to find a new house for under $1 million, a Chevy for less than $20
  
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• Concert review: Dierks Bentley fires up country fun in Vancouver

  30-01-2019 09:27 via vancouversun.com
  Country star Dierks Bentley brought his Burning Man 2019 tour to Rogers Arena in Vancouver Tuesday night with fellow genre artists Tenille Townes and Jon Pardi in tow.
  The 43-year-old artist kicked off the pop-country-filled evening with his Hot Country Knights band, which warmed up the crowd with their unique brand of so-bad-it’s-good ’90s country cover songs.
  Complete with silly choreographed dance moves and even sillier outfits (Bentley wore a blonde wig in the shape of a mul
  
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• REAL SCOOP: B.C. gangster faces drug-smuggling charges in Thailand

  30-01-2019 09:03 via vancouversun.com
  Another B.C. man is facing serious charges in Thailand. Blair Stephens, who is from the Okanagan, could get life in prison is convicted. His charges come after other BC men convicted on drug charges in other countries have faced some significant sentences – James Riach got a life sentence in the Philippines, Robert Schellenberg has been sentenced to death in China
  Here’s my story:Okanagan gangster faces heroin smuggling charges in
  ThailandKIM BOLAN
  Updated: January 29, 2019A B.C. man
  
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• West Vancouver hosts info sessions amid budget crunch - North Shore News

  30-01-2019 09:00
  West Vancouver hosts info sessions amid budget crunch  North Shore NewsWest Vancouver homeowners are looking at a 5.5 per cent increase in their municipal tax bill for 2019. District staff estimate that will add $272 to the taxes of a ...
  
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• Northern fur seal pup rescued from waters near B.C.'s Hardwicke Island

  30-01-2019 06:57 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Centre has welcomed a new seal pup to the facility.
  The northern fur seal pup, estimated at seven months old, was spotted swimming irregularly in waters near Hardwicke Island by employees of a salmon farm on Monday.
  Unable to dive and floating sideways, the pup was rescued by salmon farm employees and transported to Campbell River with the help of the DFO, then flown to Vancouver and admitted to the Rescue Centre Monday evening.
  Once there, the Rescue
  
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• Search underway near Merritt after riderless horse found

  30-01-2019 04:31 via vancouversun.com
  A search is underway for a cowboy missing near Merritt.
  The man, 32-year-old Ben Tyner, has been working at the Nicola Ranch for the past three months.
  Police spokeswoman Const. Tracy Dunsmore said emergency services were called at 12:30 p.m. on Monday with a report that a saddled horse with no rider had been found by loggers in the area. The loggers had taken the horse to Nicola Ranch, where it was recognized as belonging to Tyner.
  Dunsmore said the man had been on days off and wasn’t bel
  
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• Third Mountie who investigated ’Surrey six’ gang murders sentenced in B.C. court

  30-01-2019 03:55 via vancouversun.com
  A third RCMP officer has been sentenced after pleading guilty to his conduct in connection with British Columbia’s largest gang-related mass murder.
  Cpl. Danny Michaud was handed a three-month conditional sentence to be served in the community for failing to maintain law and order under the RCMP Act.
  His plea came hours after retired Mountie David Attew also admitted to failing to maintain law and order under the RCMP Act and was given a six-month conditional sentence to be served in the c
  
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• B.C. SPCA seeks help caring for, re-homing 27 abused horses rescued from Langley property

  30-01-2019 03:45 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. SPCA is looking for help providing care, as well as new homes, for over two dozen horses seized from a Langley property after an animal-cruelty investigation.
  According to the animal-welfare organization, 27 horses were rescued from a Langley property on Dec. 15, 2018, where they were discovered living in unsanitary conditions with hazardous objects strewn about, and suffering from a number of maladies related to improper car such as a lack of nutrition, lice infestation, overgrown hoof
  
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• Johnson leads No. 9 North Carolina past Georgia Tech 77-54 - Vancouver Sun

  30-01-2019 03:38
  Johnson leads No. 9 North Carolina past Georgia Tech 77-54  Vancouver SunATLANTA — Cameron Johnson and Coby White showed North Carolina is tough to beat and that the Tar Heels might be able to dream big.Johnson scored a ...
  
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• Diplomatic tensions over Huawei threaten expanding B.C. trade with China

  30-01-2019 03:16 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. gets the biggest bang out of Canada’s trade with China of any province and has the most to lose as long as diplomatic tensions between the two countries remain high, according to a scholar at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.
  Tensions were sparked by the arrest on Dec. 1 of Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou following an extradition request from the United States. In response, China detained former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor and is hol
  
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• Okanagan gangster faces heroin smuggling charges in Thailand

  30-01-2019 03:15 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. man who has been linked to the Independent Soldiers gang is facing drug smuggling charges in Thailand.
  Blair Curtis Stephens, 38, was arrested earlier this month in Bangkok, along with a Thai national. The head of the Thai Office of Narcotics Control Board said other Canadians are also involved in the smuggling operation, which was allegedly mailing heroin hidden in shock absorbers from Thailand to Australia.
  B.C.’s anti-gang agency says Stephens left Canada about six years ago when
  
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• Susan Martinuk: Those with mental illness need more programs not just more slogans

  30-01-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Every January, Bell Canada sponsors a media campaign encouraging Canadians to talk about mental illness on a designated, Let’s Talk Day. It donates five cents from every text or phone call made by its customers to various mental-health programs and, apparently, nickels do add up: Cumulative donations are about to surpass $100 million.
  Wednesday, Jan. 30 is Let’s Talk Day and it’s an opportunity to learn about mental health. A conversation may lead some to better understand whil
  
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• Burnaby teen Marrisa Shen's accused killer appears in court amid protest

  30-01-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  The case against the man charged with first-degree murder of Burnaby teen Marrisa Shen involves 12,000 documents and more than 800 multimedia documents, including 53 hours of interviews and 900 photos, court heard on Tuesday.
  Ibrahim Ali made a brief appearance in Vancouver provincial court to set another court appearance for March 5.
  His lawyer, Veen Aldosky, told court she has received most of the Crown’s disclosures in the case but was still awaiting the complete file. Ali, wearing pris
  
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• Vancouver council directs staff to review money laundering

  30-01-2019 02:59 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s mayor and council want to find out how city hall can help in the fight against dirty money.
  But the question of whether Vancouver’s council will join the growing chorus calling for a provincial inquiry into money laundering will be discussed at a meeting in the near future.
  Council unanimously passed a motion Tuesday directing city staff to work with provincial authorities and police “to identify a system where the City of Vancouver can share pertinent inf
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: How the Greens came to support 'botched' speculation tax

  30-01-2019 02:47 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Along with other controversies, the NDP’s speculation tax has triggered a lingering dispute with the Greens over the correct interpretation of the power-sharing agreement between the two parties.
  Green leader Andrew Weaver recently published a blow-by-blow account of the exchange that eventually led to the Greens supporting the tax in exchange for several amendments.
  But not before the New Democrats threatened to designate the vote on the tax as a confidence measure t
  
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• Over-billing Vancouver physician faces discipline hearing

  30-01-2019 02:41 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver doctor who was ordered to repay $2 million related to medical service over-billings now faces a disciplinary hearing for refusing to answer questions from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C.
  Nguyen has been summoned to the college discipline committee meeting Feb. 12. The purpose of the hearing is to inquire into his “conduct or fitness to practise medicine in B.C.”
  He is charged with failing to respond to multiple communications and correspondence from the col
  
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• 10,000 Ships sail into the Polygon Gallery

  30-01-2019 02:19 via vancouversun.com
  POLYGON GALLERY
  101 Carrie Cates Court (at Lonsdale), North Vancouver, open Tuesday to Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., admission free.
  Rod Logan likes ships.
  For the past 25 years he’s spent countless hours on the Vancouver waterfront, photographing vessels coming in and out of the harbour.
  “I quit smoking (in 1994) and said I was going to spend the money on a good camera,” relates Logan, 77. “I used to photograph just the funnels. Each shipping company has a distinct logo, and
  
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• Metro Vancouver office vacancy drops to lowest level since 2008

  30-01-2019 01:45
  
  The region's office market has long made headlines for scant office availability, but is now even tighter
  
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• Thanks to you we diverted almost 50,000 litres of dog waste in 2018 w/ the 'Got Poop' bins! Keep up the good work e… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-01-2019 01:20 via twitter.com
  Thanks to you we diverted almost 50,000 litres of dog waste in 2018 w/ the 'Got Poop' bins! Keep up the good work e… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Vancouver councillor pushes for easier overnight parking for partiers

  30-01-2019 01:08 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver city Coun. Lisa Dominato is trying to make it easier for people to get home safe after a night of drinking by enabling prepaid morning parking in the city’s EasyPark lots.
  Here’s the scenario: you’ve driven into downtown Vancouver to have a drink, but by the time you’ve wrapped up you realize you’ve had too many to drive.
  If you parked at one of the city’s streetside meters, you’re fine. The city’s “Park Until” feature on
  
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• Two cranes brought in to Vancouver port for crane recovery effort

  30-01-2019 01:07 via vancouversun.com
  It’s going to take two large floating cranes to try to lift another crane that collapsed over a container vessel at the Port of Vancouver early Monday.
  Louanne Wong, director of communications with Global Container Terminals Vanterm, says a 900-ton floating crane known as The Beast was brought in Monday and a second 600-ton crane arriving Tuesday will be used together to support the recovery operation.
  The Transportation Safety Board is investigating the incident where it says the ship the
  
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• Man charged with first-degree murder in connection with fatal shooting in Vancouver

  30-01-2019 01:03 via vancouversun.com
  A 58-year-old man has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in connection with a fatal shooting in southeast Vancouver on Saturday.
  Zenen Cepeda Silva, 69, was shot just before midnight as he walked toward the entrance of a home near Fraser Street and East 51st Avenue. Vancouver police found him suffering from gunshot wounds. He later died in hospital.
  First-degree murder charges have been approved against Alvaro Julio Roche-Garcia. He remains in custody.
  Anyone with informatio
  
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• Two cranes brought in to Vancouver port for crane recovery effort - North Shore News

  30-01-2019 00:57
  Two cranes brought in to Vancouver port for crane recovery effort  North Shore NewsVANCOUVER — It's going to take two large floating cranes to try to lift another crane that collapsed over a container vessel at the Port of Vancouver early ...
  
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• Massive search underway near Merritt after riderless horse found

  30-01-2019 00:53 via vancouversun.com
  A massive search is underway for a cowboy missing near Merritt.
  The man, 32-year-old Ben Tyner, has been working at the Nicola Ranch for the past three months.
  Police spokesperson Const. Tracy Dunsmore said emergency services were called at 12:30 p.m. Monday with a report that a saddled horse with no rider had been found by loggers in the area.
  The loggers had taken the horse to Nicola Ranch, where it was recognized as belonging to Tyner.
  Dunsmore said the man had been on days off and was not be
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: New tower on West Hastings to be ready by 2021

  30-01-2019 00:28 via vancouversun.com
  No tenants, no problem for the developers of the new office tower going up at 601 West Hastings Street in downtown Vancouver.
  “We don’t have any pre-leases yet,” said Jarvis Rouillard, the vice-president of acquisitions and leasing with PCI Developments, which is developing a 25-storey, 210,000-sq.-ft. tower at the northwest corner of Seymour and Hastings with property co-owner TD Greystone.
  The tower is expected to be delivered to market in the third quarter of 2021. Construct
  
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